Improvement in belt-buckles



.LsPRucEQ Bait-Buckles.

7 N0 156 384, Patented 0ct.27,1874.

THE GRAPHIC COjHOfOlITH-39l4 PARK PLACE N Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JAMES SPRUCE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILLEMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BELT-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,384, dated October27, 1874; application filed July 29, 1.514.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES SPRUCE, of Waterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in BeltBuckles and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, front View; :Figs. 2 and 3, the two parts detached; and inFigs. 4., 5, and 6, same views of a modification of the buckle.-

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of buckles usedto engage the two ends of a belt around the body of a person, theobjectbeing to lock the buckle when closed, so as to prevent its accidentaldisengagement; and it consists in providing the one part which overlapsthe other with a hinged hook, which, when the two parts are settogether, will engage a corresponding projection extending from theunder part out through the overlapping part, as more fully hereinafterdescribed.

A is the one part, and B the other, each pro vided with means forattachment to their respective ends of the belt, in the usual manner,the one part A has a raised central portion,

C, and the other part a similar form, D. When the two parts are settogether, as in Fig. 1, the part C overlays the part D, as seen in Fig.2, the shoulder a serving as a stop for the inner edge of the part D. Onthe part D is a stud or eye, F, which, when the two parts are settogether, passes up through a corresponding perforation, L, in the partC. On the part 0 is hinged a hook, P, constructed to be turned.

to engage the stud F. This stud, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, is grooved,as seen in broken lines, or formed with a head, and the hook slotted atd, to pass onto the stud, as seen in Fig. 1, the hook also forming anornament on the front center of the buckle.

Instead of the stud, as in Figs. land 3, it may be an eye, as in Figs. 4and 5. In this case the hook will be provided with a tongue, d, as inFig. 6.

, I claim- I 1 The herein-described buckle, composed of the two parts AC and B D, one of which has a perforation, L, and provided with a hingedhook, P, the other part constructed with an eye or stud, F,substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES SPRUCE. Witnesses:

M. L. SPERRY, E. D. WELTON.

